Media

MEDIA FIELDS 2: INFRASTRUCTURES
UCSB, April 9-10, 2009
Thursday, April 9: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020); Friday, April
10: Mosher Alumni House

Media Fields 2: Infrastructures is an interdisciplinary conference on media and infrastructure hosted by graduate students in Film and Media Studies, Communication, and Comparative Literature at UCSB.

Engineering Science Building Room 1001

Title: Privacy 2.0: Managing Privacy in Social Networking Environments

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Nanotechnologies: Perception of Technological Risk & Constraints on Benefit among Comparative US/UK Publics

This talk challenges the myth of information on the Internet: while information may appear excessively easy to find because of quick search results and increased accessibility to materials, locating relevant, high-quality information requires highly sophisticated literacy skills. Monica Bulger shares results of an empirical study for her dissertation that assessed the ways in which students negotiate potentially overwhelming online information options.

Judy Estrin, long-time technology leader and former CTO of Cisco, will be speaking as part of the CITS Distinguished Speaker Series on October 27, 2008 at UCSB.

Rob Patton is Program Manager of CITS and will present recent research that examines the communication behaviors of student users of the popular online social networking site (SNS) Facebook. Specifically the research analyzed the relationships between antecedent user characteristics and forms of networked interactivity present in Facebook user profile communication.

Cristina Venegas is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB. Her research focuses on international media with an emphasis on “Latin” America, Spanish-language film and television in the U.S., and digital technologies. Her forthcoming book is titled Digital Dilemma about Cuba’s digital media since the 1990s.